Branden is a collective poem about the burning of home countries, about the fire and the smoke of armed conflict which transforms humans into refugees. A poetic conversation with five women from different diasporas: about leaving the place they were born and (never really) arriving. An ode to displaced women.
“With Branden, I developed a new method; to interview people with stories that can be too difficult to tell. The poetic method of holding dialogues would allow us to address these experiences nonetheless. I formulated my questions during the interviews so that there would be a rhythm, and so that metaphors would emerge in the interviewees' sentences. That's how this poem came about.”
Lisette Ma Neza
“Branden is a UFO between a film-tract and a poetic manifesto, a choral film by five feminine voices who sing the shared experience of exiled women after the explosion of their home countries. Using drawings, photography, screen captures, archival footage as raw material, the editing composes a hymn to powerful sisterhood. A multivoiced first-person narrative producing an elusive “we” overflowing borders of identity. They shake us up by the power of their affirmation, question the places we occupy and fill us with joy through their uncompromising vitality.”
Aminatou Echard et Dounia Wolteche-Bovet / Etats généraux du film documentaire
